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Subject: b/bragg_billy/from_red_to_blue.crd
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:24:49 +1000
From: Mackay School Support Centre 

"From Red to Blue"
 by
 Billy Bragg
(from the album "William Bloke")

Notes: I suggest playing it using barre chords with a rhythm similar to that
used in the first bar of the intro. On the CD it is actually about a quarter
tone lower than shown below (who cares right?). The breaks aren't quite
perfect but will sound effective enough.

Transcribed by: Dean Malone

Intro and end of every verse

e   ----1-----1-----|----------------|
B   ----1-----1-----|--1---0---1-0---|
G   ----2-----2-----|--2---0-------0-|
D   ----------------|--2---0---------|
A   ----------------|0---------------|
E   1-----1-----1-3-|----------------|


F (133211@1)     Am (x02210@1)           Gm (355333@1)            BbAnother (x1333x@1)day dawns grey, It's enough to make my spit
F (133211@1)        Am (x02210@1)       Bb (x1333x@1)           GmStill (355333@1)we go on our way, just putting up with it
C (x32010@1)        Dm (xx0231@1)       C (x32010@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb                  GmAnd (355333@1)when I try to make my feelings known to you
F (133211@1)            Am (x02210@1)     Bb (x1333x@1)         Gm (355333@1)     FIt (133211@1)sounds like you have changed from red to blue


F (133211@1)           Am (x02210@1)        Gm (355333@1)              BbWell (x1333x@1)you're a father now, you see things in different ways
F (133211@1)       Am (x02210@1)         Bb (x1333x@1)                      GmFor (355333@1)every parent will, gain perspective on their wilder days
C (x32010@1)                Dm (xx0231@1)       C (x32010@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb                   GmBut (355333@1)that alone does not explain, the change I see in you
F (133211@1)            Am (x02210@1)     Bb (x1333x@1)Gm (355333@1)       FThe (133211@1)way you've drifted off from red to blue


Dm (xx0231@1) C (x32010@1)    Bb (x1333x@1)       FSometimes (133211@1)I think to myself
              Bb (x1333x@1)       F (133211@1)       Bb (x1333x@1)         FShould (133211@1)I vote red for my class or green for our children?
Dm (xx0231@1)C (x32010@1)      Bb (x1333x@1)     FBut (133211@1)whatever choice I make
       BbI (x1333x@1)will not foresake        e   ----------------|
                           B (x2444x@1) --8---6---5---3-|
                           G (320003@1) --9---7---5---3-|
                           D (xx0232@1)10---8----7--5---|  (not quite right -
                           A (x02220@1) ----------------|   but sounds good anyway)
                           E (022100@1) ----------------|

F (133211@1)    Am (x02210@1)          Gm (355333@1)           BbSo (x1333x@1)you bought it all, the best your money could buy
F (133211@1)               Am (x02210@1)           Bb (x1333x@1)             GmAnd (355333@1)I watched you sell your soul for their bright shining lie
C (x32010@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)    C (x32010@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb                         GmWhere (355333@1)are the principles of the friend I thought I knew?
F (133211@1)         Am (x02210@1)     Bb (x1333x@1) Gm (355333@1)        FI (133211@1)guess you let them fade from red to blue


F (133211@1)        Am (x02210@1)       Gm (355333@1)              BbI (x1333x@1)hate the compromises that life forces us to make
F (133211@1)         Am (x02210@1)         Bb (x1333x@1)       GmWe (355333@1)must all bend a little if we are not to break
C (x32010@1)                Dm (xx0231@1)     C (x32010@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb                         GmBut (355333@1)the ideals you opted out of, I still hold them to be true
F (133211@1)          Am (x02210@1)       Bb (x1333x@1)   Gm (355333@1)    F(hold) (133211@1)I guess they weren't so firmly held by you.
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